Instead of interacting with screens, Waldorf students learn to play musical instruments, work in wood, paint, bake, dance, crochet, sculpt and other crafts ­that are a mandatory part of the academic curriculum, which also includes writing, mathematics, history and other academic basics. (Wednesday September 21st, 2016 — The Register-Guard - Eugene, Oregon USA)

In a milestone that took more than a decade to reach, the team is testing the first commercial-scale prototype of a device designed to generate electricity from slow-moving river and ocean currents. Called VIVACE, the device harnesses a phenomenon called flow-induced motion. It weighs 12 tons and it’s submerged in 26 feet of water. (Wednesday September 21st, 2016 — Michigan Today - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA)

Researchers working at Germany’s Messel Pit, a disused quarry near Frankfurt, recently discovered a fossil that shows a bug inside a lizard inside a snake. Or as Discover magazine calls it: “essentially a prehistoric turducken.” (Thursday September 8th, 2016 — Huffington Post - USA)

New analysis shows the controversial Grolier Codex is no forgery. (Thursday September 8th, 2016 — Huffington Post - USA)

The first Waldorf-inspired school in Windsor-Essex opened its doors Tuesday to the delight of local parents seeking an alternative education for their children. (Wednesday September 7th, 2016 — CBC.ca - Windsor, Ontario Canada)

SPINS® proudly announces Biodynamic® certification as the newest attribute to appear in its SATORI™ reporting and analytics tool. The partnership with Demeter USA®, the only certification agency for Biodynamic products in the U.S., enables manufacturer and retailer partners to engage with this growing movement toward healthy and sustainable means of production across a multitude of product categories. (Wednesday September 7th, 2016 — BevNET.com )

While most human occupation harms the landscape, new research shows that British Columbia’s coastal First Nations have made the forest thrive. (Tuesday September 6th, 2016 — Care2.com - USA)

From 1964 to 1973, U.S. warplanes dropped more than 270 million cluster munitions on the communist country, one-third of which did not explode. (Tuesday September 6th, 2016 — Huffington Post - USA)

Costco joins supermarket chains including Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Safeway, and Kroger in promising not to sell the genetically modified fish, according to environmental group Friends of the Earth. (Sunday September 4th, 2016 — TakePart.com)

Farley Macallan “reinvents the local” with biodynamic wines and provides a welcoming atmosphere, despite its position on Hackney’s noisy crossroads (Friday September 2nd, 2016 — Islington Gazette - UK)

School administrators are currently in the process of documenting the school's history, but some of their archives were damaged during the flood of September 2013. Alumni and former parents are being asked to flip through their photo albums to help supplement what is left. (Tuesday August 30th, 2016 — Boulder Daily Camera - Boulder, Colorado USA)

Organic food just got one-upped. Biodynamics looks to be the new front-runner in the push for healthy and efficient farming methods. ... “A fully-functioning biodynamic farm can live in its own little bubble,” Sandberg said. “It means we preserve the life of the soil. Most conventional farmers use so many fertilizers and fumigants that their soil is dead.” (Tuesday August 30th, 2016 — Monterey County Herald - Monterey, California USA)

Current resident columnists on Cook magazine Jane Scotter and Harry Astley farm at Fern Verrow, a patch of 16 acres on the border of England and Wales. They are led by the principles of biodynamic farming, pioneered by Rudolf Steiner in the 1920s, to address dwindling soil fertility and degenerating crop quality. Judging by the quality of their produce, it works... Photography by Elena Heatherwick. (Tuesday August 30th, 2016 — The Guardian - UK)

Cedar Bridge brings education inspired by Waldorf principles to the North Okanagan. In the past two years, enrolment has doubled, leaving no room in the existing building to house the students. Hence, the capital campaign to expand. And now residents are encouraged to contribute as an anonymous donor has offered to match donations to the campaign received between Aug. 1 and the end of September up to a maximum of $50,000. (Tuesday August 30th, 2016 — Vernon Morning Star - British Columbia, Canada)

Biodynamic pioneer Alan Chadwick turned America on to radical growing methods—influencing everyone from Alice Waters to winemakers Fetzer and Frey. So how come you’ve never heard of him? (Tuesday August 30th, 2016 — Modern Farmer - Hudson, New York USA)

photo gallery (Tuesday August 30th, 2016 — The Coloradoan - USA)

In biodynamic agriculture, the highest goal of cultivation is always an intricate balance of all of these systems, providing for holistically grown foods that continually build on the fertility of the landscape, as opposed to degrade and diminish it over time. (Tuesday August 30th, 2016 — Mother Earth News - USA)

One of only 121 Waldorf schools in the nation, Beverly’s Waldorf School at Moraine Farm, formerly the Cape Ann Waldorf School, will be celebrating its 30th year of operation when the doors open to students in just a matter of weeks. (Tuesday August 30th, 2016 — Wicked Local North of Boston - )

The newly-erected turbines off of Block Island may signal the future of American wind power (Thursday August 25th, 2016 — Smithsonian online -USA)

So wineries invest the time and money to have more sustainable practices. But does it pay off? Here’s what people at a Friday tasting at Sundance Wine Cellars had to say about their willingness to buy organic wines. “I buy organic wines if they taste good,” says Karen Dooley. (Thursday August 25th, 2016 — KLCC FM Public Radio - Oregon, USA)